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Steve Hill.
In 1999 Steve Hill exploded onto the scene with Frantic Theme
(Get A Life You Drug Addicts) which went on to sell nearly
30,000 copies worldwide and even ended up in the UK Top 75 Singles
chart "It was my first track, so I think it did well!" he chuckles.
Since then he's been responsible for over 125 productions, including
outstanding success with remixes of Tiesto's mega hit Adagio
For Strings and has even remixed five top 40 tunes including
Kylie's In Your Eyes, Art of Trance's Madagascar
and Signum's What You Got For Me. When asked about his
production workload, Steve replies "Sleep isn't an option when
there are so many ideas floating in your head for tracks."
Mr Hill also runs and owns recording music empire with three separate and different record/music labels theses include Masif which is described as "just about large anthemic Hard Trance productions on the UK tip, S-Trax is the similar to Masif but only for German Hard Trance and VW Records is for those cheeky cover versions of big tracks I'm known for."
Hill's musical diversity has also seen him produce tunes in the harder styles of dance music alongside extremely talented hard dance producers like Captain Tinrib, James Lawson, Guyver, Lock N Load, Dark By Design, Paul Maddox, Knuckleheadz, Base Graffiti and many, many more. When asked who out of theses bad boys of the hard dance scene was the craziest to work with, immediate response is "Captain Tinrib - he's a maniac! Awesomely talented, but a maniac! We got through a large bottle of vodka while making a track together, and we started at 10am!"
He's also recorded under many different aliases and pseudonyms over the last couple of years including Neon Light, Zander, Masif DJs, Mr Bishi, Kumara, Volts Wagen, Nylon and Phlash, but at the moment Steve has just been focusing on his own projects, along with his Masif DJ's and Neon Lights stuff. Steve explains "It got too confusing for me who I was supposed to be in the studio at times." Now based in Australia he's flown to Europe four times in the past year, clocking up over 250,000kms. His DJ sets are explosive and euphoric, scoring him residencies all over the world including Dance Valley in Holland, Chemistry in NZ, Transmission in Sydney and London's Hard House Academy, where he took out the club's "Best Set Of The Year" "It's a mad gig! 5,000 people bouncing off the walls to Hard Trance from all over Europe. It's definitely one of the best gigs I've ever done."
2005 has been a masif (excuse the pun) year for Steve Hill touring the globe: Asia, Africa, Europe and Australia. When asked what the main culture differences are from country to country Hill remarks that "One cultural thing that is a common theme everywhere is everyone likes to go out and party every weekend. On the dance floor that never changes, although musically it is slightly different everywhere you play. I'd say the best scenes in the world are still Europe and Australia though, for me."
In the studio Steve tends to stick to his musical production software program Logic 7 on his G5 Mac with loads of percussion samples he's collected along the way and a wedge of virtual synths. "It's amazing how everything used to be hardware like samplers etcetera but now it's all on your laptop - you can make a track anywhere."
While Hill tries to keep a lid on his future direction in production, DJ-ing and making tunes he says "a lot of it is decided by the scene - where it goes musically, where I'm playing, what tracks I'm producing etc. One day you'll be in the studio making a track, the next you're on a plane to DJ at the Malaysian Formula 1 - who would've thought?"
Daniel Tedge
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Steve Hill plays at Euphoric Mayhem at Earth on Sat 5 Nov, along with Josh, Devious, Odyssey, H-Bomb , Cheeeky.B, Dr Damage, Banshee, Adrian.V , Anarki, Dirty Al, Kenny Koncept, Roket & Gagootz, MCs Maestro D & Rudeboy.
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